Ernest Charles Auguste Candèze

Ernest Charles Auguste Candèze

From Candèze's monograph on the click beetles (1857)

Ernest Charles Auguste Candèze (born February 27, 1827 in Liège , Belgium , † June 30, 1898 in Glain , Belgium) was a Belgian physician and entomologist . His research focus were the click beetles (Elateridae), of which he described numerous new species.

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After previous training, Candèze completed a medical degree in Liège and Paris. In Liège he was a student of the entomologist Jean Théodore Lacordaire , who probably had an important influence on Candèze's career as an entomologist. On Lacordaire's recommendation, he joined the entomological circles in Liège, where he had long friendships with his colleagues Félicien Chapuis (1824–1879), Edmond de Selys-Longchamps (1813–1900) and Robert McLachlan (1837–1904). In the following years Candèze became an assistant doctor in a large institution for the mentally disturbed, where he married the daughter of the director and then took the post of director of the institution himself, which he gave up a few years later.

Candèze's first entomological publication, a catalog on beetle larvae, was created in 1853 in collaboration with Félicien Chapuis. Most famous, however, was Candèze's monograph des Élatérides , which was published in four volumes in 1857, 1859, 1860 and 1863. Out of friendship with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814–1886) he also wrote popular science books, including Aventures d'un grillon (Paris, 1877), La Gileppe, les infortunes d'une population d'insectes (Paris, 1879) and Périnette , histoire surprenante de cinq moineaux (Paris, 1886).

In 1855 he was one of the founding members of the Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Entomologie , together with Edmond de Sélys Longchamps , in whose annals Candèze added his remarks on the click beetle for many years. In 1860 he became a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society .

Candèze brought together several collections of Elateridae types at intervals , the first and most important of which was that of the British entomologist Edward Wesley Janson , who died in 1891 . Today this collection is in the British Museum .

In addition to his entomological research, Candèze worked as a photographer. In 1874 he had a foldable camera, the so-called Scénographe, patented.

Candèze was married and had five children. Of these, his son Léon (1863-1926) was also a well-known entomologist.

Works

• Catalog méthodique des élatérides connus en 1890 . 1891 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.47119
• Catalog des larves des coléoptères, connues jusqu'a ce jour. avec la description de plusieurs espèces nouvelles . 1853 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.10014
• Monograph des élatérides . 1857–1863 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.8958
• Review of the monograph of the élatérides . 1874 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.47120

literature

• Robert McLachlan: Obituary. Ernest Charles August Candèze . In: The Entomologists Monthly Magazine . Vol. 34, 1898, pp. 215-216.
• John L. Capinera: Encyclopedia of entomology. Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4020-6242-1 .